New single
available now!
Latest Release
Totdat Er Niets Meer Over Is [Onderweg Naar Jou]
°09 September 2024
Written, produced and arranged by Moonrize
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Dear visitor,
My new single is a kind of intermezzo. The reason is the death of my mother. It’s a totally different kind of song, with emphasis on the lyrics. This time in my own native language… Dutch.
I didn’t intend to remain silent for so long. I was busy working on a new single when my mother suddenly became ill and was diagnosed with cancer. She didn’t have long to live.
Me and my younger brother have been by her side in the hospital for the last few weeks of her life. Everything else was on hold. She finally died on March 1st.
After that I needed a period of silence. I just went with my feelings, and I assumed that I would get the urge to write again soon.
In April 2024 I was asked to perform for the ‘Local Heroes’ in Geel, and in the few preceding days I wrote this song: ‘Totdat Er Niets Meer Is Over’… I had finished it in a demo version and sang it for the first time in the Cultural Center ‘De Werft’.
The whole time, this demo version was in the back of my head and stayed there, and I felt I had to do a little more with it. The genre is completely different from what I normally do, and I wanted to make myself heard to the world in this way.
This song is about healing myself, but it is also an ode to my deceased mother and an indictment of our society, where the emphasis is too much on material things…
I hope you can enjoy it. I’m sure she loves this song too!
Moonrize